In its 375th year on the Taunton Green, the First Parish Church has seen a new pastor, a congregation that has grown from about 10 to about 80 and, now, new renovations.

“As the church has grown, people have gotten really excited about the potential here,” said Rev. Christana Wille McKnight, 33, who started at the church on April 1.

The renovations — which include mostly cleaning, painting and remodeling different rooms throughout the church — have been ongoing since the summer. With all the work done by church members volunteering their time, McKnight said the renovations have been a project of the whole congregation trying to answer the questions: “What kind of church do we want to be? How do we want to present ourselves?“

“One of the challenges we’ve wrestled with, in a really good way, through this process is how do we retain the history of this church... and have it be alive today,” she said, adding that the church needs to be historical but relevant for the modern world.

Along these lines, McKnight said one of the changes to the chapel — where the congregation meets rather than in the much larger sanctuary — was adding an LCD projector that shines the words to the hymns on the wall, along with the occasional video.

Other changes to the church include a new ceiling, coat of paint and children’s corner for the newly named Elizabeth Hall — named after Elizabeth Pole — new furniture for the Hodgdon Room, new paint and photographs for the hallways and a newly cleaned and refinished kitchen.

“None of it has been hugely expensive,” McKnight said. “It’s just been a lot of people contributing a lot of ideas and a lot of time and a lot of energy.”

“I have to say, I can take no credit in this,” she added. “The members have done everything. They’re great.”

McKnight said the next projects she and the congregation hope to tackle are repainting and carpeting the entryway and making some minor renovations to the church’s large sanctuary — built in the 1800s and containing a number of large and historic stained glass windows.

She also said she hopes the congregation will continue to grow to the point where they could use the sanctuary and not be overwhelmed by the large space. For now, they continue to use to smaller chapel.

“We are starting to outgrow this space,” she said. “I don’t know how long we’re going to stay here.”

The First Parish Church is a Unitarian Universalist Congregation — a Protestant denomination of Christianity that McKnight described as being welcoming of all. McKnight said the denomination was one of the first to accept gay and lesbian church members.

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“A real goal of this church specifically, even within the Universalist faith, is to help people grow,” she said.

A theme-based ministry, McKnight said the First Parish Church focuses on monthly themes for worship on Sundays, with the theme for October being faith.